years old. when he was living with his longtime girlfriend, vanessa sapiro and their young son. what kind of guy is j.j.? lovable, friend ly, family oriented. vanessa says velasquez was studying to be a computer programmer and was taking a short break from school to help with their newborn. that s when the call came that changed everything. it was a saturday morning, and i received a phone call that the police were looking for me. and that came to me as a shock. but what came to me as even more of a shock was the fact they said that i was a suspect for shooting a police officer. and why was that so shocking to you? because i ve never shot anybody in my life. i mean, shooting a police officer? my father was a cop. his father, john adrian sr., was a police officer for amtrak and had recently passed away. the death offer your father had a tremendous affect on you. absolutely.
party. and my values, which are business friend ly, socially conservative, were more in line with the republican party. this is where the work really is. this is where i can make a difference in my lifetime. so i m very comfortable with my decision. i ve never looked back. i think that hispanic republicans can make a difference. ber literally the liaisons of two different communities. there s certain words that offend us. anchor babies, we were having a discussion about that. that is an offensive word. it takes away from the issue that needs to be debated. when you use terms that are offensive. or when you talk about deporting my grandmother. it s not the words, yes. but it s the words that are
uncertain. joining me now msnbc military analyst and retired u.s. army general barry mccafferty. general, good morning. good morning, alex. throughout this revolution, sir, defense secretary robert gates has been in contact with the top military leaders in egypt. how optimistic is the u.s. that a new government in that country will be friend ly to and cooperative with america? well, we probably ought to be pretty confident. it s inspirational watching hundreds of thousands of egyptians step forward and rally against injustice and incompetence. so my guess is supreme military council temporarily presided over by the aging minister of defense, a mubarak clone. my guess is in the coming months they don t know what they re doing yet, alex. they re trying to sink lou it. they re smart, sophisticated people, educated in the united states but they don t have much experience putting together a democratic re jaem. so i think they re going to be